But when the prediction is wrong and not easily…

But when the prediction is wrong and not easily fixed, the discrepancy summons our attention so that the brain can bring everything it has its senses, its knowledge, its powers of reason to bear on the new situation. "That is why, phenomenologically, we feel consciousness," Tani said. In short, we are only aware of thwarted expectations.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit

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There are, roughly, two systems at work in you at all times: a fast, intuitive one that leaps, and a slow, reasoning one that checks. And it runs ahead of itself — predicting what you are about to see and flagging your attention only when the prediction turns out wrong; the conscious mind you experience mostly arrives a beat later, comparing and rationalizing what the fast system has already chosen. Of the millions of impressions hurtling at you every second, the vast majority are filtered out before you ever notice them — you are never seeing the whole world, only the thin sliver your mind decided to show you. — The Mind in the Cockpit

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